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Kentucky’s 2022 offensive line struggling to live up to the legacy of the Big Blue Wall

We should have expected this. Four starters gone. Two were NFL Draft picks. A third was the starting left tackle. One former starting guard is now starting at center. The other former starting guard is now playing tackle. Little wonder Kentucky football’s offensive line has started, should we say, slowly.

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Mark Story: Can UK football make the ‘special season’ a reality? Cats need answers to 3 questions.

With one quarter of the 2022 Kentucky Wildcats football season in the books, an awful lot has gone right.

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John Clay: With the heart of its SEC schedule approaching, Kentucky’s offense has yet to click

Through the first three games of the 2022 college football season, this Kentucky football team is undefeated and ranked in the AP top 10, yet it sees a troubling cloud gathering on the horizon.

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John Clay: Should Kentucky football one day build a statue of Mark Stoops? Why wait?

When debating the idea of whether Mark Stoops would ever be tempted to leave Kentucky for some college football power, the argument goes that at his current pace, one day UK might build a statue in Stoops’ honor.

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John Clay: ‘Very unique place.’ Mark Stoops left Youngstown, but Youngstown didn’t leave Mark Stoops.

For Mark Stoops, Saturday is a homecoming away from home.

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Forde-Yard Dash: Scott Frost’s Dismissal Long Overdue

Nebraska will pay (handsomely) for its denial around its now-former coach, but it isn’t the only program in hot water.

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Mark Story: Can Mark Stoops keep UK football climbing? Florida is a big part of that answer.

If you peruse the Florida pregame notes package previewing the No. 12 Gators’ SEC East showdown Saturday night against No. 20 Kentucky, you find an interesting nugget.

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John Clay: Scenes from ‘The Swamp,’ site of many Kentucky football lowlights and one huge win

There’s a reason it’s called “The Swamp”

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Mark Story: Kentucky in a College Football Playoff? At 12 teams, the Cats can at least dream.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — On Saturday night, Mark Stoops earned his 60th career win as Kentucky’s football coach with No. 20 UK’s uneven 37-13 victory over Miami (Ohio).

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Mark Story: To have a shot at Florida, UK will need a better Levis — and a stouter Big Blue Wall

Will Levis had just hung 303 passing yards and three touchdowns on Miami (Ohio). The Penn State transfer had just run his record as Kentucky’s starting quarterback to 11-3 with a 37-13 vanquishing of the plucky RedHawks.

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Mark Story: Why you are about to watch the most-scrutinized Kentucky football season in history

Over the short term, I would argue Mark Stoops was the winner in the public dust-up with John Calipari that followed last month’s “basketball school” imbroglio.

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John Clay: What impact will current disciplinary distraction have on Kentucky’s football season?

Days away from the season opener, the last thing any football coach wants is a distraction. Yet a distraction is exactly what Kentucky head coach Mark Stoops is dealing with before Saturday night’s date with Miami (Ohio) at Kroger Field.

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John Clay’s preseason college football Top 25: There’s a familiar name at the top

My college football preseason top 25:

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Mark Story: As season draws near, five things Mark Stoops should be worried about

For a Kentucky football program that so often plays the “we get no respect” card, the 2022 Wildcats are basking in preseason esteem.

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Mark Story: Is there a scenario where UK football goes 11-1 in 2022 — and Cats fans are unhappy?

The University of Kentucky began playing football in 1881. In all the time since, no Wildcats team has ever reached 11 wins in a regular season.

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John Clay: In defense of Mitch Barnhart, the athletics director dealing with UK’s departmental drama

Mitch Barnhart turns 63 later this month, but forgive him if he feels more like 163.

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Mark Story: Can UK prevent Stoops-Calipari from becoming Bear Bryant-Adolph Rupp II?

Adolph Rupp is the greatest men’s basketball coach in Southeastern Conference history. Before Nick Saban, Bear Bryant was the greatest football coach the SEC had ever seen.

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Barnhart’s Message to Kentucky Coaches Worth a Second Look

The public discourse between John Calipari and Mark Stoops did not sit well with the Wildcats’ normally quiet AD.

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John Clay: We’re witnessing a strange, new chapter in University of Kentucky athletics

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, you see something new.

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Mark Story: Why describing Kentucky as ‘a basketball school’ is problematic — and outdated

LEXINGTON, Ky. — When Alabama football visited Lexington to play Kentucky in 2013, a player both schools were then recruiting, John Hardin defensive lineman Matt Elam, was making an unofficial recruiting visit to UK.

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‘This program wasn’t born on third base’: Stoops-Calipari feud not settling down yet

LEXINGTON, Ky. — So much for the feud between John Calipari and Mark Stoops blowing over quickly.

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John Clay: Once again, Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops shows he’s not about to back down

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops has a difficult enough job battling the likes of Nick Saban and Kirby Smart and Jimbo Fisher, much less having to go toe-to-toe with his own basketball coach.

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John Calipari called Kentucky a ‘basketball school’ and Mark Stoops, obviously, objected (with receipts!)

John Calipari has rubbed people the wrong way with his brash comments in the past but this time he stepped on the toes of his Kentucky coworker Mark Stoops.

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Is UK a basketball school? Mark Stoops and John Calipari at odds over facilities comment.

John Calipari’s public crusade for basketball facility improvements turned into a public Twitter fight with Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops on Thursday.

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For just the fifth time in history, Kentucky football is ranked in a major preseason poll

For just the fifth time in program history, Kentucky football will enter a season ranked in at least one of the major polls.

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